Tips to Quit Smoking

While reading from an old journal yesterday I noticed some quit smoking motto's I found helpful when I stopped smoking cigarettes over 15 years ago.
The sayings are true and reliable which means you do have a leg to stand on, a crutch to lean on and a point of view to trust in....

Hubby is right at one and one half years quit smoking and he is doing well. We are officially a non-smoking household for the first time since we met almost 40 years ago! (we started young.)
A tip to quit smoking that truly helps is to remember that any withdrawal symptoms are temporary and will not always be an issue. They will change, flunctuate and eventually fade away....

Going through cancer treatment does give one extra motivation to quit smoking or stay quit and so he has. It's been over a year now and the weight he gained when he first quit and then lost during treatment has somewhat stabilized.
He did use Chantix  again to stop smoking and it did seem to help although the crankiness was still there at times and eating to compensate for the hand to mouth movements. Which is why I preferred to use the nicotine gum. It gave me something to do...

Applies to many things...exercise, eating right, flossing, quitting smoking.
Many who are diagnosed with a possibly smoking related cancer quit at diagnosis.
My husband quit 4 months before his diagnosis of treatable, curable throat cancer.